The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment lost 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 201 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864 |
January 26 |
Organized from 3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry |
February |
Duty at Martinsburg and Charleston, W. Va., W. Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army West Virginia |
January 27-February 7 |
Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties |
February 2 |
Springfield |
March |
Moved to Beverly |
April |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
April 8 |
Winchester (Detachment) |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
June 10 |
Kablestown (Detachment) |
June 13 |
White Post (Detachment) |
June 26 |
Wire Bridge and Springfield (Detachment) |
July 4 |
Frankfort |
July 26 |
Back Creek Bridge |
July 7 |
Regiment reorganized at Cumberland, Md. Attached to Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va. |
August 22 |
Remounted at North Bridge and ordered to New Creek. |
November 6-8 |
Expedition, to Moorefield (Detachment) |
November 27-28 |
Moorefield |
November 28 |
New Creek |
January 12 |
Moved to Remount Camp, Pleasant Valley, Md. |
1865 |
April 4 |
Duty at Washington, D.C. attached to 22nd Army Corps |
June 12-29 |
Moved to Leavenworth, Kan. and attached to District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri
A detachment moved to Fort Kearney, Neb., and duty under Major Squires. |
July 16 |
Regiment moved to Julesburg and duty escorting Overland mails and operating against hostile Indians at Julesburg and Cottonwood Springs |
1866 |
April |
Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. |
May 22 |
Mustered out |
